Classical Laefêvëši

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Laefeveshi
Laefêvëši ᛚᚨᛖᚠᛌᚬᚴᛇᛋᛁ
Spoken in: Olilóinien (planet)
Conworld:
Total speakers:
Genealogical classification: Vlamarian
Old Laefeveshi
Middle Laefeveshi
Laefeveshi
Basic word order: SVO (neutral), free
Morphological type: agglutinating, inflecting, polysynthetic
Morphosyntactic alignment: nominative-accusative
Writing system:
Created by:
Andrej Šuc 2003-2010

Laefêvëši ᛚᚨᛖᚠᛌᚬᚴᛇᛋᛁ or Laefeveshi is an a priori conlang created by Andrej Šuc. The beginnings of the conlang date back to the year 2003 and the conlang has been developing ever since. The language was inspired by Slovene and several other languages but it is essentially an a priori conlang. It has a rich phonology and it's highly agglutinative with inflecting and polysynthetic features. It uses extended Latin script but alternatively also adopted runic alphabet.

The language is part of a larger language family which consists of total 13 languages. Laefêvëši is natively spoken by Elves in Olilóinien ᛅᛚᛁᛚᛌᛅᛁᚾᛁᛖᚾ.

Family

Main article: Vlamarian language family

Laefeveshi is part of a larger language family called Vlamarian language family which consists of 13 languages.

Phonology

Main article: Phonological changes of Laefeveshi
Laefeshi vowels
  Front Near-front Central Near-back Back
Unrounded Rounded Unrounded Rounded
Short Long Short Long Short Long Short Long Short Long Short Long Short Long
Close i i: y y:       ɯ ɯ: u u:
Near-close   ɪ ɪ:   ʊ ʊ:  
Close-mid e e: ø ø:         o o:
Mid     ə    
Open-mid ɛ ɛ: œ œ:       ʌ ʌ: ɔ ɔ:
Open     a a:    


Laefeveshi consonants
Bilabial Labiodental Dental Alveolar Postalveolar Retroflex Alveopalatal Palatal Velar
Nasal Plain m     n       ɲ ŋ
Gemiante m:     n:          
Plosive Plain p b     t d         k ɡ
Geminate p: b:     t: d:         k: ɡ:
Aspirated            
Fricative Plain   f v θ ð s z ʃ* ʒ* ʂ* ʐ* ɕ ʑ   x ɣ
Geminate   f: v: θ: ð: s: z:          
Affricate Plain       ʦ ʣ ʧ ʤ   ʨ ʥ    
Aspirated       ʦʰ ʧʰ   ʨʰ    
Approximant       ɹ       j w
Trill       r          
Flap or tap       ɾ          
Lateral
approximant
Plain       l       ʎ  
Geminate       l:          

Notes:

  • asterisk (*): the two post-alveolar fricatives /ʃ ʒ/ are interchangeable with the retroflex fricatives /ʂ ʐ/.

Writing system

Laefeveshi uses two types of writing systems, the traditional runic alphabet and alternative Latin writing. There have been many attempts to write Laefeveshi with Latin letters but because of its rich phonology it has proven to be very difficult to find an appropriate romanization.

Latitheo

The romanization of the Laefeveshi language is called Látiþeo or latitheo in English. The current official system uses a large number of letters, many with diacritics.

Laefeshi vowels
  Front Near-front Central Near-back Back
Unrounded Rounded Unrounded Rounded
Short Long Short Long Short Long Short Long Short Long Short Long Short Long
Close i, í í y, ý ý       ü, ű ű u, ú ú
Near-close   ī, î î   ū, û û  
Close-mid e, é é ø, ǿ ǿ         o, ó ó
Mid     ë, ä    
Open-mid ē, ê ê ö, ő ő       ā, â â ō, ô ô
Open     a, á á, ă    


Laefeveshi consonants
Bilabial Labiodental Dental Alveolar Postalveolar Retroflex Alveopalatal Palatal Velar
Nasal Plain m     n       nj ŋ
Gemiante mm     nn          
Plosive Plain p b     t d         k ɡ
Geminate pp bb     tt dd         kk ɡg
Aspirated pq     tq         kq
Fricative Plain   f v þ ð s z š ž ṡ/ṣ ż/ẓ ś ź   h x
Geminate   ff vv þþ ðð ss zz          
Affricate Plain       c dz č dž   ć dź    
Aspirated       cq čq   ćq    
Approximant       ŗ       j w
Trill       rr          
Flap or tap       r          
Lateral
approximant
Plain       l       lj  
Geminate       ll          

Runic alphabet

Laefêvëši uses an adaptation of the runic alphabet along with the Latin script.


Laefeshi vowels
  Front Near-front Central Near-back Back
Unrounded Rounded Unrounded Rounded
Short Long Short Long Short Long Short Long Short Long Short Long Short Long
Close ᛁ, ᛌᛁ ᛌᛁ ᚣ, ᛌᚣ ᛌᚣ       ᚥ, ᛌᚥ ᛌᚥ ᚢ, ᛌᚢ ᛌᚢ
Near-close   ᛄ, ᛌᛄ ᛌᛄ   ᚤ, ᛌᚤ ᛌᚤ  
Close-mid ᛖ, ᛌᛖ ᛌᛖ ᛡ, ᛌᛡ ᛌᛡ         ᛟ, ᛌᛟ ᛌᛟ
Mid     ᛇ, ᛌᛇ    
Open-mid ᚬ, ᛌᚬ ᛌᚬ ᚯ, ᛌᚯ ᛌᚯ       ᛮ, ᛌᛮ ᛌᛮ ᛅ, ᛌᛅ ᛌᛅ
Open     ᚨ, ᛌᚨ ᛌᚨ, ᚮ    


Laefeveshi consonants
Bilabial Labiodental Dental Alveolar Postalveolar Retroflex Alveopalatal Palatal Velar
Nasal Plain          
Gemiante ᚲᛗ     ᚲᚾ          
Plosive Plain ᛈ ᛒ     ᛏ ᛞ         ᚸ ᚷ
Geminate ᚲᛈ ᚲᛒ     ᚲᛏ ᚲᛞ         ᚲᚸ ᚲᚷ
Aspirated ᛈᚺ     ᛏᚺ         ᚸᚺ
Fricative Plain   ᚠ ᚴ ᚦ ᛨ ᛊ ᛉ ᛋ ᛣ ṡ/ṣ ż/ẓ* ᛠ ᛯ   ᚻ ᛤ
Geminate   ᚲᚠ ᚲᚴ ᚲᚦ ᚲᛨ ᚲᛊ ᚲᛉ          
Affricate Plain       ᚳ ᛩ ᛥ ᛪ   ᛕ ᛰ    
Aspirated       ᚳᚺ ᛥᚺ   ᛕᚺ    
Approximant            
Trill                
Flap or tap                
Lateral
approximant
Plain              
Geminate       ᚲᛚ          

Grammar